Improvement in automatic smotcing-signs



UNITE STATES HENRY J. DAVIES AND WALTER D.

DAVIES, 0F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN AUTCMATIC SMOKING-SIGNS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. B93,930, dated August 7, 1877; application filed V July 2, 1877.

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that we, HENRY J. DAvIEs and WALTER D. DAVIES, both of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Tobacconists Smoking-Signs; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification.

Our invention has for its object the supply of an automatic smoking-figure, designed to be used for tobacconists7 advertising, and which represents a person smoking a cigar, but without the defects of toy smoking-figures as heretofore constructed.

Such smoking-gures have heretofore been constructedwith a pipe or a pseudo cigar, in which tobacco or other combustible material for generating smoke is placed, the pipe or cigar being held to the mouth, 'and the smoke being drawn from the samel through a tube descending through the figure to a bellows worked by clock-work, from which the smoke drawn in is expelled through another tube leading to an opening in the mouth of the gure, from which the smoke issues. This construction has presented the diiculty that the dust, oil, and juice from the burning tobacco,

' or other material employed in the pipe or cigar,aredrawnintothetubedescendingthrough the figure to the bellows, clogging the saine, and as such tube and bellows are difficult to reach for cleaning, great inconvenience has resulted. i

In our improvement the smoke is never A drawn through the bellows, nor the mouth of the figure, but is rst purified, and then only ejected from the mouth, the pseudo cigar or pipe held to the mouth not containing the tobacco or other material for generatingl the smoke; hence the smoke-tube is not liable to clog, as heretofore, and only one tube in the body of the ligure is necessary to produce the desired resemblance to actual smoking.

The invention partly consists in an automatic figure placed upon a hollow base, a furthe pseudo cigar, in such manner that, at intervals, the cigar is taken from the mouth and held at a distance from the same, for imitat ing the motion of the arm of a living smoker while smoking a cigar.

The invention also consists in the combina tion, with the above named mechanism for operating the arm, of other mechanism for moving the head ofthe ligure, the combined movement of the head and arm being such' as to resemble that of a living smoker in smoking a cigar.

The invention further consists in the combination, with the automatic toy smoker, constructed and operated as hereinafter described, of an endless advertising-sheet, and rollers for moving' the same, impelled by belt or gearing from the same clockwork which operates the automatic smoker.

Figure l in the accompanying drawing is a side view of the entire device, onecside oi' the hollow base being removedv to show the interior working parts. Fig. 2 is a rear view, a portion of the automatic ligure being broken away to show the interior working mechanism, and the back part of the hollow base being' removed to show the furnace or lire-pot, the condenser and dust-collector, and the connections with the bellowsand other working parts contained in said base. The repot and condenser are also shown in section.

A is the automatic smoking-figure, having the movable arm B and the movable head G. In the hand of the movable arm B is fixed the pseudo cigar d, Fig. 1, which, in one position ling the smoke.

and from denser and dust-collector, E', and from thence of the arm, is applied to the mouth, as shown, and in another position of the arm, as'fhereinafter described, is removed from the mouth to imitate the withdrawal of the cigar from the mouth of a living smoker at the time of eject- E Iis a furnace or fire-pot, placed within the base lor pedestal F, upon which the figure stands, which base also contains a bellows, gearing, H, for operating the same. pot E has preferably a tobacco or other combustible is placed, and a cap, c', which closes the fire-pot. To the tirepot E an air-tube, I, leads from the bellows, the dre-pot a tube, I', leads to a con- The tire- Ianother tube, lI, leads up through the figure to the aperture in the mouth thereof. rEhe said condenser and dust-collector is a simple chamber,preferably a glass bottle with a suitable stopper, which collects the dust and condenses the oil and moisture from the smoke during its passage through said condenser. The bellows Gr is operated by the clock-work H through a pitman, K, connecting said bellows with a crank, L, or a cam driven by said vclock-work.

Suitable valves are applied to the bellows at mm, to direct the current of air from the bellows -to the fire-pot E, and smoke from the dre-pot to the condenser, and from the condenser to the aperture in the mouth of the smoking-figure. A pitman, N, extends from an oscillating lever, P, impelled by a crank, o, connected with the clock-work trainto a lever, r, Fig.2,'attachedto the rock-shaft s. The arm B is attached to the end of this rockshaft, which has its bearings b in the bodyv of the figure.

The revolution of the crank o through the oscillating bar Pand pitrnan N rocks the rockshaft s in its bearings at the proper intervals, and operates the yarm to withdraw the cigar from the mouth of the figure and replace it again, after the manner of aliving smokin g-figure.

Thefmovable head C is attached to a vertical rod or rock-shaft, T, which yrocks in bearings c, placed in-thebody of the gure. From the 'side of the said rock-shaft T extends, laterally, a bifurcated lever, j, in the fork of which `plays a lever-arm, g, extending from the rock-shaft s. From the side of said rockshaft, opposite the lever i", extends an arm,

h, to which a coiled spring, lo, is attached. The action of this coiled spring is opposed to that of the rod N, and in contracting it reverses all the movements caused by the action of the rod N. The action of the rodN is, through the `rock-shaft s, to remove the arm and the pseudo cigar held in the hand thereof from the mouth, and at the same timeto -turn the head on its vertical axis. The contrac- G, "and a train'of clock-'worka grate, g', on whichl Aend of one of two .front of the base tion of the spring reverses all these movements.

In this way is formed and operated an automatic smoking-ligure, the movements of which very closelyresemble those of a living smoker, ywithout danger of clogging the bellows or thetub'e'through which v`the 'sink'e is ejected.

The fire-'pot E, condenser E', and the tube which connects them are very conveniently accessible for cleaning, when desired.

Tobacco or any other suitable substance which freely'forms vsmoke during its combustion may be used in the fire-pot.v

Through a pulley, l, driven by the clockwork, a belt, n, is led to ya pulley,.p, on the parallel rollers, s', placed inl the base F near the front thereof. n

Over 'these lrollers k is [extended an endless advertising-sheet, t, which slowlyfmovesd'uring the operation ofthe figure, and themovements` of the said ligure attract attention `t'o the advertisements of ydifferent grades and qualities of tobacco, cigars, and other articles sold by tobacconists printed von said endless sheet. y

A plate of glass, agis preferably placed in F to display said Vadvertising-sheet; but, of course, a system jof'jge'ar- 4ing may replace the belt and pulleysifordriving the advertising-sheet.

We claim- 1. rllhe combination, with an automatic'tigure representing a living smoker, ofabellows and a furnace or fire-pot in the base on'which the ligure stands, clock-work for operating the automatic figure and bellows, tubes leading from the bellows to'the're-pot, and yfroml the fire-pot to an aperture -in themoiith of the said figure, anda valve or valves'dir'ecting the smoke in such mannerthat it'ows from the lire-pot only toward and out of said' aperture, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. A A

2. The combination, with the smoking-iigure A, bellows G,flrepot E, and jeductiontubes 'directing smoke from'the said `fire-pot to the aperture in the mouth of "the'figure, of the condenser and dustcollector E, interposed lbetween said fire-pot ture, and connected therewith by Ithetube I', substantially as and for-the'purpose set forth. n

3. The -combination'of the movable arm B, the rock-shaft s, havingL hearings in the vbody of the ligure, and attached to said movable arm, the lever r, the 4rod N, the lever yh,"the

spring 7c, the horizontalpivoted'bar P, andthe crank o, operated by the clock-work H,to actuate -the horizontal bar, substantially as and for the purpose described. y

4:. The combination, withthe arm 'IB, the

rock-shaft s,hav1ng vertical lever g," and oper and said aperlever f, and adapted to ated by the clock-work H through the medium of the rod N, horizontal pivoted bar P, and crank o, of' the vertical shaft T, having forked oscillate the head C, substantially as described.

5. The combination, with the automatic smoker and the clock-work and bellows for operating the same, substantially as herein described, of the endless advertisingsheet t, arranged in the same case or hollow base that contains the clock-work, and operated by belt or gearing connecting the same with the said clock-Work, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

HENRY J. DAVIES. W. D. DAVIES. Witnesses to the signature of Henry J. Da-- vies:

FRED. HAYNEs, BENJAMIN W. HOFFMAN. Witnesses to the' signature of Walter D. avies:

BENJAMIN W. HOFFMAN, EDWARD B. SPEEDY. 

